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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 219,674 ratings — published 1812
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 330 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 226,139 ratings — published 2017
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 128,850 ratings — published -560
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 339,493 ratings — published 2017
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 157 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 108,971 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 137 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.49 — 86,802 ratings — published 2019
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 258,355 ratings — published 2015
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,855 ratings — published 1888
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 981,971 ratings — published 2001
Men and Monsters (Nightfall, #2)
by (shelved 122 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.40 — 556 ratings — published 2018
Spinning Silver (ebook)
by (shelved 112 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,195 ratings — published 2018
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.97 — 189,541 ratings — published 2023
Thistlefoot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.94 — 23,469 ratings — published 2022
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,275 ratings — published 1850
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.03 — 80,610 ratings — published 800
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,314 ratings — published 1975
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,295,609 ratings — published 2018
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.50 — 339,737 ratings — published 1000
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,676 ratings — published 1956
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,593 ratings — published 2011
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,661 ratings — published 1855
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 129,953 ratings — published 2013
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,309 ratings — published 1893
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,387 ratings — published 2009
The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 85 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,467 ratings — published 1400
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,484 ratings — published 1989
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.28 — 94,020 ratings — published 1989
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.88 — 75,382 ratings — published 2019
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,297 ratings — published 1973
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.11 — 91,839 ratings — published 1992
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,585 ratings — published 1911
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,383 ratings — published 1984
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,621 ratings — published 2017
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,378 ratings — published 1949
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,943 ratings — published 1987
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,936 ratings — published 1904
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,186 ratings — published 2023
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,573 ratings — published 2022
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,232 ratings — published 2018
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,973 ratings — published 1835
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,641 ratings — published 1890
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,269 ratings — published 1988
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.91 — 63,642 ratings — published 1979
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,088 ratings — published 1697
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,765 ratings — published 2014
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,613 ratings — published 1981
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,375 ratings — published 2009
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,218 ratings — published 1975
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as folklore)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,402 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as folklore)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,893,731 ratings — published 2011
“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.”
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“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”
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